Sean Frazer

Sean Frazer is a Managing Director at Periculum Capital Company, a Carmel, Indiana-based investment and merchant banking firm founded in 1998. Periculum describes its work as serving middle-market companies through mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, and capital formation. Frazer focuses on M&A advisory, capital formation, and merchant banking for technology, business services, and other industries. He is also the firm’s Chief Compliance Officer and leads its financial analyst recruitment and development program.

Before joining Periculum in 2015, Frazer was a Senior Manager at Amazon.com in Seattle. His work there included finance, business-unit M&A, post-acquisition integration, strategy, and product management with Amazon’s Kindle organization and Amazon Local Register team.

Earlier in his career, Frazer founded Lombard Capital, a strategic advisory and merchant banking firm. Periculum says he led the acquisition of a business services firm and served as an interim executive in several business services companies. He was also a Vice President at Hammond, Kennedy, Whitney & Company, an Indianapolis-based private equity firm, where he made platform investments and oversaw portfolio companies in manufacturing, distribution, and business services.

Frazer earned an MBA/JD from Indiana University Bloomington’s Kelley School of Business and School of Law. He also earned a BS in Computer Information Systems from the Kelley School.

• Frazer’s verified current work is closer to investment banking, merchant banking, and private-placement advisory than a conventional angel-investor portfolio role.
• Periculum supports early-stage or seed-stage Regulation D financings, placing unregistered securities with institutional and accredited individual investors.
• Periculum says it focuses early-stage work on companies that can “develop entirely new markets or significantly disrupt legacy markets.”
• For institutional equity, Periculum emphasizes first and second round financings and says it looks for financeable management teams and companies with opportunities to create long-term value.
• Frazer’s transaction commentary emphasizes a data-driven company narrative: in the PrecisionPoint sale, he said letting company data speak for itself can be one of the most compelling ways to communicate strengths to buyers.
• Sector exposure from Frazer-linked transactions includes healthcare software, digital twin / geospatial services, home healthcare, specialty manufacturing, business services, and technology-enabled services.